Ian Anderson at Jose Carreras Gala (Photo By: Sean Gallup / Getty Images)

[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Ian Anderson[/lastfm] of [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Jethro Tull[/lastfm] will be on stage tonight in Perm, Russia. He will be performing a duet with someone in outer space. While this seems to happen all the time in rock n roll, this time the person will REALLY be in orbit. His partner will be U.S. astronaut [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Colonel Catherine Coleman [/lastfm]on the International Space Station. They pre-taped a collaboration of  Tull’s song “[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Bouree[/lastfm]” in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight by Russia’s Yuri Gagarin.

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